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How Erdogan won Turkish election

Posted by: The Conversation Global highlights

Date: Monday, 29 May 2023

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Recep Tayyip Erdogan will remain president of Turkey for another five years after winning Sunday’s run-off election over his rival, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, writes Mehmet Ozalp of Charles Sturt University. If Erdogan serves the full five-year term, he will have held power for 26 years. So, how did he win the election and what is likely to happen in the country in the foreseeable future? Click here for Mehmet’s early analysis.

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Mehmet Ozalp, Charles Sturt University

Turkey desperately needed a change in government and a breath of fresh air. Now the social, political and economic suffocation is likely to get worse.

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